"A worsening trend has bothered school teachers and academics so much
that over recent years that umpteen critical thinking Web sites 1 have been
springing up. Their aim is to alert students to the risks entailed in the
hasty acceptance of unsubstantiated opinions or deceptive ideas. "

"These days, there is a much wider acceptance in
Australia of Aboriginal toponyms (place-names) than there was, say,
80 years ago. For instance, in Sydney, Australia’s oldest town and
in due course the capital of the Colony of New South Wales, such
names are now plentiful . . .

Unsurprisingly, since
white settlement there have been innumerable negrophobic persons and
groups attempting to impede such decisions, yet there was more than
just a custom in play here. It was virtually a policy from the
outset."

". . . But it is not always easy to destroy books. They may not have
as many lives as a cat, but they certainly die hard; and it is
sometimes difficult to find a scaffold for them. This difficulty
once brought me almost within the Shadow of the Rope. I was living
in a small and (as Shakespeare would say) heaven-kissing flat in
Chelsea, and books of inferior minor verse gradually accumulated
there until at last I was faced with the alternative of either
evicting the books or else leaving them in sole, undisturbed tenancy
and taking rooms elsewhere for myself. Now, no one would have bought
these books. I therefore had to throw them away or wipe them off the
map altogether. But how? There were scores of them. "